is a 1976 American action comedy film written and directed by Charles B. Griffith, and starring Ron Howard.

It was Charles B. Griffith's first film as director since Forbidden Island (1959), although he had directed second unit on a number of movies such as The Young Racers, The She Beast and Death Race 2000; the latter had been a huge hit for Roger Corman.

[3] Corman offered the lead role of the film to Ron Howard who was nationally famous from the TV series Happy Days.

The actor read it on the set of Happy Days and "thought it was terrible: a broad, zany car-chase comedy with weak jokes and cardboard characters.

He had written a comedy with his father called Tis the Season, about a student who rents a room in a massage parlor, and raised half the budget from Australia.

Charles Griffith directed the film, which was shot in four weeks, although Howard's scenes were done in only ten days.

I learned a lot from observing Chuck Griffith’s fast, nimble, low-budget approach to filmmaking, and I just liked the indie vibe around the Corman machine.

That stuff about ‘My dad named me Hoover because I put him in a Depression’ he did just so smoothly, and the picture got a lot of laughs.

The Los Angeles Times called it "virtually nothing but a chase" with "some very ugly aspects" including suggesting "that everyone over 21 is a hypocrite or a fool or both and above all that everyone—and everything—is for the taking.